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Conclusion
Novell eDirectory provides new business growth by building and maintaining secure and highly customized e-business relationships while leveraging your current technology investments.
Novell eDirectory is the best directory service available to lay the foundation for e-business in the 21st century. eDirectory helps companies take products and services to market faster than their competitors, giving them a competitive advantage in the Internet economy.
Directory-enabled applications are the future of e-business--the directory will soon be to the network what the operating system is to the PC. Because eDirectory supports more open standards and protocols than all other directory services combined, it is well on its way to becoming the de facto standard for directory services. Companies like Cisco, CNN, Sun Microsystems, Xircom and many others support eDirectory and offer eDirectory-enabled services. This eDirectory momentum is driving computing into a new era based on the directory.
With eDirectory you can use directory-enabled applications to create secure, customized relationships between your network and those of your customers and partners. You can combine e-business solutions with your partners by setting up mutually beneficial relationships between company networks. Customers can securely populate customer-accessible directories. E-business partners can directly communicate with and update each others' directories. Suppliers can immediately know when and how much to ship. Changes in airline reservations can automatically alert hotel and car rental reservations systems. Crucial market data can be collected at Internet speeds.
eDirectory also lays the foundation for capturing, storing, organizing, and leveraging important identity information such as customer demographics, product interest, buying patterns, transactions, product feedback, and satisfaction levels. With this information you can tailor your customers' business experiences--such as what they see on a Web page--to cultivate a loyalty to your company that will continue as your business changes and expands.
With Novell eDirectory you can also be sure your resources are secure. eDirectory's superior security features include Novell International Cryptographic Infrastructure, passwords encrypted over Secure Sockets Layer, RSA private key/public key encryption, Secure Authentication Services, smart cards and X.509v3 certificates. You will be able to designate exactly who is allowed access to which information: granting rights to one directory will not provide rights to your entire network or even to all the information in that directory.
Hopefully this course has given you the overview of Novell eDirectory to invigorate you to want to either integrate your product with Novell eDirectory, or to make it a part of the way you do business at your company.
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